Easily package your Meteor apps with Electron, and butter.

TL;DR - Check the DIY demo.

Works on all Meteor's supported platforms.

meteor add arboleya:electrify

Keep your meteor running, fire up a second terminal tab and enter Meteor's interactive shell:

meteor shell

Once inside it, execute the electrify command:

electrify

Press enter.

Alternatively, you can do it with the electrify npm package -- Meteor is still required in order for this command to run, but the Meteor server can be down.

npm install -g electrify
cd /you/meteor/project && electrify

Both methods will output your Electron app inside .electrify/.dist folder.

NOTES

The output app will match your current operational system and arch type.

• To get an OSX app, run it from a Osx machine.
• To get an Linux 32bit app, run it from a 32bit Linux machine.
• To get an Linux 64bit app, run it from a 64nit Linux machine.
• To get an Windows 32bit app, run it from a 64bit Windows machine.
• To get an Windows 64bit app, run it from a 64bit Windows machine.

Due to NodeJS native bindings of such libraries such as Fibers -- which are mandatory for Meteor, you'll need to have your Meteor app fully working on the desired platform before installing this plugin and packaging your app.

So, at this time, you cannot package your app in a cross-platform fashion from one single OS.

Perhaps you can live with it? :)

1. You'll notice a new folder called .electrify in your project root folder.
2. This is the place where your electrified app will live.
3. Inside of it, there will be a package.json and index.js file.
4. They are simple templates with the minimum amount of code for it to work.
5. Customize them as you need, it's a plain Electron project.
6. Just pay attention, keep the elecrify boot/shutdown process working.
7. Also keep the Electron node-integration = off.

var app       = require('app');
var browser   = require('browser-window');
var electrify = require('electrify');

var window    = null;

app.on('ready', function() {

  window = new browser({
    width: 1200,
    height: 900,
    'node-integration': false                // <~ node-integration = off
  });
  
  electrify.boot(function() {                // <~ electrify:boot
    window.loadUrl(electrify.meteor_url);
  });

});


app.on('will-quit', function(event) {
  electrify.shutdown(app, event);            // <~ electrify:shutdown
});

app.on('window-all-closed', function() {
  app.quit();
});

I started this project after being unable to accomplhish the same things using:

• Electrometeor
• Meteor-Electron

However I'd like to thank these authors for all the inspiration.

I'd also like to thank Hems for the first insights.

This package differs from Electrometeor and meteor-electron in the way it requires absolute no learning curve and is heavily tested against Osx, Linux and Windows.

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Anderson Arboleya

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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